Breast-collar for horses



JOHN G. TAYLOR, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

' BREAST-COLLAR FOR Honsns.

Speccaton of Letters Patent No. 30,7 '7 5, dated November 27,1860.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN Gr. TAYLOR, of the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Breast-Collars for IIorses and other Draft-Animals; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l, is a perspective representation of a breast-collar made with a metallic arch or bow projecting in front, for the purpose of avoiding all pressure of the collar upon the windpipe and jugular vein of the animal;

Fig. 2 a sectional representation of the said arch or bow, as heretofore constructed with rigid elongations or plates for securing it to the trace-tugs; and Fig. 3, a horizontal section of the said arch or bow and plates, connected together by means of hinge-joints.

Like letters when on the different figures, indicating the same parts.

My invention has for its object the production of a breast-collar that, in addition to the advantage afforded by the arch or bow-whereby pressure is avoided upon the wind-pipe and jugular vein of the animall to which it may be applied-will also be self adjusting to the shoulders so that one and the same collar will tit different sized horses without diminishing the said protective function of the arch or bow; and thus, not only making the collar tit better around the shoulders, in any case, but avoiding the sliding or rubbing motion of the padding against the shoulders from the al ternating action of the latter in the movements of the horse.

It consists, substantially as hereinafter described, in making the said arch or bow and its two plates, in separate parts connected together by means of hinge-joints which, when the usual padded tugstraps are secured to the said plates, the collar will readily yield at the said joints, so as to adjust itself to tit properly the shoulders of different sized horses, as before stated.

In the drawings, A, represents the arch or bow, B, B, the trace tugs, and C, the neck strap, of a breast-collar.

The bow (A) is made of steelthe cylindrical portion, d, being of suiicient diameter or thickness to resist bending in use, and also of suflicient height and span to entirely clear the throat `or neck and at the same time reach from shoulder to shoulder of the animal-as indicated by the dotted line of Fig. 2.

The two plates e, e, whereby the padded tugs (B, B) vare secured to the ends of the bow (A)-by rivets through the holes f-f, or otherwise-have heretofore been made as rigid elongations of the said bowas seen in Fig. Q-and consequently the collar would not fit the shoulders of more than one size of horses. In order, therefore, to adapt one and the same collar to it the shoulders of different sized animals, as before stated, I connect the said plates (c, 6,) to the ends of the bow (A) by means of the hinge-joints g, g, as seen in Fig. 8, and then cover the said joints with the leather of the usual tugs (B, B) so as to present the finished appearance seen at these parts in Fig. l; consequently, when the collar, so hinged, is applied, the padded tugs (B, B) will readily adjust themselves to the shoulders of very different sized horses, without varying. the form or position of the protecting arch or bow (A). The adjustability thus afforded, I have found, by experience, to be suiiicient to adapt one and the same collar to fit the shoulders of a horse weighing 2000 pounds, as well as those of a horse weighing only 800 to 900 pounds-while in either case the throat and jugular vein were left entirely free from all pressure.

Having thus fully described my improvement in breast-collars, and pointed out its superior utility, what I claim Yas my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1s,- l

A breastcollar having the projecting, metallic arch, or bow, (A) articulated, or jointed to the tugs (B, B) substantially in the mamier described and for the purposes speeied.

JOHN Gr. TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

BENJ. MoRIsoN, .JAMES DIX. 

